ETF comparison
VO vs VYM
US Mid Cap vs Dividend.
Vanguard Morningstar Mid-Cap ETF · Vanguard High Dividend Yield Index Fund ETF Shares
Holdings overlap
133 positions appear in both funds. Buying equal dollars of VO and VYM would leave roughly 21.7% of each dollar exposed to the same underlying securities.
Unmatched is the part of a fund's weight the other fund doesn't match: names only it holds, plus any extra weight it puts in names both funds hold.
Side by side
Sub-score comparison
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Cost difference
VO is 1 bps cheaper than VYM. On a $100,000 position that's about $10/yr more in fees for VYM.
Fee figure is the annual expense charged on $100,000. To see how the gap compounds over a multi-decade holding period, open the cost calculator pre-filled with VO vs VYM.
Top shared holdings
133 shared in total| # | Holding | In VO | In VYM | Overlap |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Newmont Corp | 0.48% | 0.41% | 0.41% |
| 2 | Marathon Petroleum Corp | 0.72% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 3 | Valero Energy Corp | 0.75% | 0.38% | 0.38% |
| 4 | Johnson Controls International plc | 0.43% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 5 | Cummins Inc | 0.95% | 0.36% | 0.36% |
| 6 | Williams Cos Inc/The | 0.44% | 0.35% | 0.35% |
| 7 | Phillips 66 | 0.66% | 0.34% | 0.34% |
| 8 | Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd | 0.74% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 9 | Travelers Cos Inc/The | 0.34% | 0.32% | 0.32% |
| 10 | Norfolk Southern Corp | 0.34% | 0.31% | 0.31% |
| 11 | SLB Ltd | 0.67% | 0.30% | 0.30% |
| 12 | American Electric Power Co Inc | 0.36% | 0.28% | 0.28% |
Only in VO
149 total- Vertiv Holdings Co 1.22%
- Western Digital Corp 1.06%
- Seagate Technology Holdings PLC 1.05%
- Quanta Services Inc 1.04%
- Howmet Aerospace Inc 1.04%
- Datadog Inc 0.83%
- Bloom Energy Corp 0.79%
- Constellation Energy Corp 0.78%
- Robinhood Markets Inc 0.77%
- Cloudflare Inc 0.76%
Only in VYM
471 total- Broadcom Inc 7.35%
- JPMorgan Chase & Co 3.82%
- ExxonMobil Holdings Corp 2.63%
- Johnson & Johnson 2.51%
- Cisco Systems Inc 1.86%
- AbbVie Inc 1.80%
- Bank of America Corp 1.66%
- UnitedHealth Group Inc 1.52%
- Caterpillar Inc 1.50%
- Chevron Corp 1.48%
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- VYM vs SCHD · Schwab U.S. Dividend Equity ETF 21.4%
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- VYM vs IWS · iShares Russell Mid-Cap Value ETF 21.3%
- VYM vs SPLV · Invesco S&P 500 Low Volatility ETF 21.0%
- VYM vs ACWV · iShares MSCI Global Min Vol Factor ETF 21.0%
- VYM vs DVY · iShares Select Dividend ETF 20.6%
Percentages are holdings overlap with the named fund.
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Holdings overlap is the sum of min(weight_a, weight_b) over positions
matched on ISIN (CUSIP fallback). Methodology: see
/methodology/.
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